Jewish Study Group,
Teachers' Institute
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Honor Rabbi Wohlgelernter's
10th Anniversary in Detroit

Mrs. Betty Patt, chairman of
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah Dedicates Journal for Its Annual
the Jewish Parents' ,Institute, an-
Patrons Dinner, to be Held on March 14, to Its
nounces the formation of the
President and Chairman of Vaad Hachinuch
Jewish Study Group, which will

Completion of 10 years of serv-
ice in Detroit by Rabbi Max J.
Wohlgelernter will be honored by
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah at its
annual patrons' dinner at the
Bnai Moshe on March 14.
David Goldberg, chairman of

RABBI M. J.-WOHLGELERNTER

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Friday, January 23, 1948

May will complete five years as
the Yeshiva's president.
A Detroit delegate to the Amer-
ican Jewish Conference, Rabbi
Wohlgelernter's national • affilia-
tions include memberShip on Na-
tional JDC Council, national UJA
campaign. committee, Vaad Ha-
poel, Mizrachi, Union of Oithodox
Jewish Congregations, Rabinical
Council of America, Vaad Hat-
zala and Torah Umesorah. He
now is chairman of the National
Coti_ncil of the League for. Re-
ligious Labor in Palestine, in
whose behalf he toured Palestine
in 1946, and is guest lecturer at
Young Israel Institute of Jewish
Studies in . New York.

meet regularly twice a month
for 10 sessions, beginning Feb. 3
and ending Jane 8,
_- at the Jewish
Center.
The tentative schedule of ses-
sions includes the study of tra-
ditions, ceremonies, music, his-
tory, literature and ethics.
Members of the Center staff
and competent professional peo-
ple in, the community will direct
the courses.
Mrs. Patt also announced the
formation of a • Teachers' Train-
ing Institute, whose students later
will serve as_-leaders in Jewish
clubs. A series of 10 sessions has
been organized for this group,
to start on Jan. 47.
Mrs. Boaz Siegel is chairman
of both the Jewish Study Group
and the Teachers' Training Insti-
tute.
Registration for both courses
may be made by calling the Jew-
ish Center, MA. 8400. Anyone
registering for the study group
can also attend sessions at the
teachers _ ' institute for • the same
fee.

Jacob W. Madk Dies in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI (JTA) — Jacob
W. Mack, former chairman of the
board of the Union of American
H e bar e w Congregation and a
brother of the late Judge Julian
W. Mack, died here at the age
Buying and keeping U. S. Sav-
of 72. He was a leading member
of the Bnai Brith and had been ings Bonds • is the safest, surest
president of the Isaac M. Wise way to long-term security and
independence.
- Temple.

the year book for this event, an-
nounces that the journal will
be dedicated to Rabbi Wohl-
gelernter.
Born in 1909 near Kielce, Po-
land, Rabbi Wohlgelernter traces
his lineage to a family of rabbis
and Hassidic personalities. His
father, a shohet, died in Toronto
in 1927._ His mother, now in her
mid-seventies, is active in, To-
ronto D'Arcy Talmud Torah, Miz-
rachi and Sabbath observance.
Editor and Debater
Rabbi Wohlgelernter was edu-
cated in the Mesifta of Warsaw
one year prior to his EA'. Mitzvah.
He came to Canada with his par-
ents in 1923, attended Ontario
schools, studied in New York
Yeshiva High School and Yeshi-
vah University (Yeshivath Isaac
Elhanan) and was ordained in
1930. He was editor of the stu-
dent publication and was on the
university debating team.
He taught a Young Israel
Adult _School, while at the Yes-
hiva, was cataloguer at Yeshiva
Library, studied at College of
City of New York and held his
first pulpit in Hamilton, Ontario.
He assisted Meyer W. Weisgal in
organizing the Ontario Zionist
Region and called the first con-
ference in, Montreal to form
United Orthodox Synagogues of
Canada.
From 1932 to 1935, while at-
tending the graduate school of
University of Washington, he was
educational director of Seattle
Talmud Torah. He was executive
director of Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations, 193-37;
represented UOJC on Synagogue
Council, Scouting Committee and
other national movements.
Local, National ActiVities
In July, 1936, he was married
to Miriam Unger of Brooklyn, N.
Y., graduate and subsequent
teacher at National Hebrew
School of New York, founded by
the late A. H. Friedland, and
holder of the M. A. degree from
-Hunter College. They have -a
daughter, 'Tamar, born here in
1938. .
Rabbi Wohlgelernter came to
Congregation Beth Tefilo Eman-
uel on- Dec. 1, 1947. He has been
active here and held offices in
Young Israel, Jewish Community
Council, -Council of Orthodox
Rabbis, Vaad Hayeshivot, Jewish
Welfare-Federation, Resettlement
Service, Old Age Bureau, Detroit
Service Group and Allied Jewish
Campaign. He founded the Michi-
gan Syriagogue Conference and
Women's League for Sabbath Ob-
servance and is a member of the
community Advisory Board of
The Jewish News.
Since February, 1944, he has
been Jewish Chaplain at Wayne
County General Hospital. He is
chairman of *Vaad Hachinuch of
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah and in

Midwest Educators
Meeting in Chicago

The annual conference of mid-
western will take place during
the weekend -of Jan. 23- in Chi-
cago, at -the College of Jewish
Studies. -
Sessions will be devoted to re-
ports on the work of the various
mid=western bureaus. of Jewish-
education, the Hebrew summer
camp • "Sharon" p Buchanan,
Mich., and the manner in which
mid-western bureaus should co-
operate among themselves.
Featured speaker will be Dr.
Shnon Ravidowitz, outstanding
Hebrew author, formerly of Lon-
don, England, now guest lectur-
er at the Chicago College of Jew-
ish Studies.
Detroit will be represented at

this conference by Bernard Isaacs,
Albert Elazar and Michael Mich-
lin.
Heads of bureaus will attend
the Oneg Shabbat, arranged by
the Council of Federations and
Welfare Funds, meeting in Chi- ,
cago during the same weekend.

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